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Job Description
Design, measure, fit, and adapt lenses and frames for client according to written optical prescription or specification. Assist client with inserting, removing, and caring for contact lenses. Assist client with selecting frames. Measure customer for size of eyeglasses and coordinate frames with facial and eye measurements and optical prescription. Prepare work order for optical laboratory containing instructions for grinding and mounting lenses in frames. Verify exactness of finished lens spectacles. Adjust frame and lens position to fit client. May shape or reshape frames. Includes contact lens opticians.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-2081.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 37,860.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 18.00
- Currently, there are 75,270 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Opticians, Dispensing”.
Also Known As…
- Opticians, Dispensing
- Optometric Technician
- Optometric Assistant
- Optician
- Optical Technician
- Ophthalmic Dispenser
- Licensed Optician
- Licensed Dispensing Optician (LDO)
- Dispensing Optician
- Contact Lens Technician
- Certified Optician
- Optician Apprentice
- Optical Manager
- Optical Dispenser
- Optical Assistant
- Licensed Optical Dispenser
- Eyeglass Fitter
- Dispensing Optician Apprentice
- Dispensing and Measuring Optician
- Contact Lens Fitter
Tasks for “Optometric Technician”
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
- Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
- Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients' eyeglasses.
- Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
- Order and purchase frames and lenses.
- Supervise the training of student opticians.
- Perform administrative duties such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping.
- Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
- Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
- Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
- Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
- Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
- Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and other goods related to eyes in general.
- Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
- Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.
- Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
- Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
- Repair damaged frames.
- Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
- Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
- Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
Related Technology & Tools
- Cash registers
- Angling pliers
- Digital pupilometers
- Snellen eye charts
- Digital calipers
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- Bracing pliers
- Chain nose pliers
- Contact lens thickness gauges
- Lens aligning pliers
- Contact lens tweezers
- Nose pad adjusting pliers
- Straight screwdrivers
- Snipe nose pliers
- Laptop computers
- Personal computers
- Pupillometers
- End piece pliers
- Screw-holding tweezers
- Frame warmers
- Lens analyzers
- Hex wrenches
- Lens clocks
- Focimeters
- Dial calipers
- Flat nose pliers
- Bushing pullers
- Credit card processing machines
- Millimeter rules
- Optometric lensometers
- Optical cutting pliers
- Desktop computers
- Hollow snipe pliers
- Optical screwdrivers
- Lens files
- Cold-bend pliers
- Half-round files
- Autorefractors
- Pickup screwdrivers
- EZ-Zone Optizone Enterprise
- First Insight MaximEyes
- EMRlogic Systems ENTERPRISE Visions
- OfficeMate Software Solutions OfficeMate
- Microsoft Office
- Diversified Ophthalmics Practice Maximus
- Cygnet Infotech Optifocus
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Compulink Eyecare Advantage
- Specialist Data Solutions OctoPlus
- Microsoft Excel
- Insight Software My Vision Express
- HealthLine Systems Eyecom
- Microsoft Word
- Point of sale POS software